“Video games are bad for you? That’s what they said about rock-n-roll.”

I love video games. And, while I don’t game nearly as much as I used to, I can’t hide the fact that growing up as a gamer had a big influence on who I am today.

In the past, us gamers have gotten a bad wrap. We’ve been labeled as being lazy, unproductive, violent, and immature.

However, as scientists and research teams have conducted more studies on the effects that playing video games has on individuals, they are discovering more and more that playing video games may actually provide some positive benefits.

Napoleon Hill’s classic Think and Grow Rich was published in 1937. Since that time it has sold well over 70 million copies and is, as of today, the top-selling personal development book of all time.

Not only that, but it is also one of the best selling books—across any genre—of all time. And, a lot of people credit Think and Grow Rich as being the starting point for the personal development and self-improvement movement.

At the behest of steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie, Hill set out to interview the most successful people of the early 20th century in hopes of finding a set of learnable and teachable principles that anyone could use to become wealthy.

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – Henry Ford

History loves failures who turn their situation around. I mean, how many times have we heard the story of the celebrity or the highly successful person who used a failure as the great motivator that drove them to success?

Steve Jobs got fired from Apple, went to Pixar, matured, was given Apple back, and then proceeded to turn the tech company into an even bigger giant.

Thomas Edison was once told that he was “too stupid to learn anything.” He then accumulated 2,332 patents in his lifetime.

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ABOUT BRENT HALE

I know what you must be thinking… another internet marketing guru? Where in God’s name do all of these ‘so-called’ experts come from?
Well, you’ll be relieved to know that I’m not an internet marketing guru…
At least I don’t really view myself as being one.
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